Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
by Drdrdrq on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:52PM
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Genuinly curious: if you don't protect the host, how can you protect the users? Host has the power to change any content, including BTC addresses, text,...
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
by dmurray on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:49PM
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Not if the content is cryptographically signed by the author, so at least some content can be served safely. I'm not sure if it's possible to have a dynamically generated website that encrypts or signs all content without having the signing key accessible to the host, though.
Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
by pathseeker on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:30PM
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In this case: protecting the users == hiding their origin
Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
by jstanley on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:22PM
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The hoster certainly has the power to scam people, but he doesn't have the power to deanonymise them.
Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
by mirimir on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:30PM
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He does, if he drops phone-home malware. As the FBI has done, at least twice.
Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
by sandworm101 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:46AM
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That in turn only works where the users havent taken additional steps beyond Tor. Tor was never meant to solve every problem.